Whats on your turntable tonight?

Music is what sustains us, is it not?

Today:

Handel's Messiah with McGegan and The PhilharmoniavBaroque with the incomparable Lorraine Hunt (a glorious performance only available on CD, unfortunately)

Chopin, Piano Concerto No. 1, Abbado/LSO, Argerich -pf, DGG 139 383

Sibelius, Symphony No. 2, Barbirolli/RPO, Chesky reissue

Joan Baez, "Any Day Now - Songs of Bob Dylan," Vanguard VSD 79306/7 (Well, the first LP of two. By then she wore me out.)

Bill Monroe, "7th Annual Bluegrass Festival at Bean Blossom" MCA 2-8002 (great music making!)
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Ralph Towner - Solo Concert
Dire Straits - Private Investigations (side 1)
Dire Straits - Eponymous (side 1)

Well, Merry Christmas vinyl lovers...

Last night we tried in vein to get through the

Orphans box set by Tom Waits on ANTI Records

Huge box, 7 Lps, nice!

and again, A lot of great vinyl has being mentioned on this thread over the years, if you love some titles that are either very rare on vinyl these days or have never been pressed, please add them to the "Wish List For Vinyl Pressings" here on AudioGon...

Happy Listening!

Ghosthouse: The Dire Straits "Private Investigations" has become a reference for some of us in our local club.It seems to me that all the Dire Straits recordings are excellent; low noise floor and very nuanced and uncompressed,but the "Love Over Gold" is the best of all.

I just got a nice copy of Mark Knopfler's music of the film
"Local Hero". Again,low sound floor,nuanced and uncompressed sounding.
There is a track where the beginning is a old car(bad muffler) starts up that can startle anyone (and usually does).

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Al Green - Greatest Hits

Led Zeppenlin - II (unopened, green Mexican pressing from '81, pretty cool), IV (orginal '71 pressing, in great shape after a 3rd cleaning)

Cassandra Wilson - Loverly

Radiohead - Pablo Honey, new but with a significant warp, thank God for the periphery ring.

Tears for Fears - Seeds of Love (like new), Songs from the Big Chair

Badfinger - Straight Up, not a great copy, but hard to find a good one

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Shelby Lynne - Just a Little Lovin (one of my all time Fav's)